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728171f	It was the fact that I didn't want to kill anyone. I wasn't put on this earth to murder my fellow man. I'd grown up with violence - can't you see that? I can't bear it.		war	John Boyne
5286496	continued			John Boyne
8ab85ae	Bruno. 'In Berlin we had a big house with five floors if you counted the			John Boyne
39da98e	surprised			John Boyne
d96bf84	Czechoslovakia			John Boyne
d57fd91	evening			John Boyne
bab4f37	imagination			John Boyne
65746a6	retractable roof, a pair of black, white and red			John Boyne
92d7343	The New House			John Boyne
336bf93	approached and sometimes they fell to the ground and sometimes they didn't even get up and had to be carried away instead. It's funny that I've never wondered about those people, Bruno thought. And it's funny that when you think of all the times the soldiers go over there - and he had			John Boyne
1548c8a	because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.' Bruno			John Boyne
06eec7f	But then I didn't know what I was giving up until it was already gone. No one ever does, do they?			John Boyne
124a5ce	After all, the great joy of literature, as opposed to politics or religion, is that it embraces differing opinions, it encourages debate, it allows us to have heated conversations with our closest friends and dearest loved ones and through it all no one gets hurt, no one gets taken away from their homes and no one gets killed.			John Boyne
d892507	It was a difficult time to be Irish, a difficult time to be twenty-one years of age and a difficult time to be a man who was attracted to other men. To be all three simultaneously required a level of subterfuge and guile that felt contrary to my nature. I had never considered myself to be a dishonest person, hating the idea that I was capable of such mendacity and deceit, but the more I examined the architecture of my life, the more I reali..			John Boyne
2581ba5	Fences like this exist all over the world. We hope you never have to reach such a fence.			John Boyne
67bee60	Every man is afraid of women as far as I can see," said Julian, displaying an understanding of the universe far beyond his years. "That's true," she said. "But only because most men are not as smart as women and yet they continue to hold all the power, they fear a change of the world order."			John Boyne
1060241	The suggestion, however, regarding my age - that I am perhaps not quite fifty years old - would flatter me immensely. For it is many years now since I have been able to say in all honesty that I have only seen half a century. This is simply the age, or at least the visual representation of an age, at which I have been stuck for a large proportion of my 256 years of life. I am an old man.			John Boyne
7dd47d3	Oh, I hate him,' she said, and I noticed a flush of colour come into her cheeks and the manner in which the fingers of her left hand dug into her palm, as if she wanted something to take away the pain. 'I absolutely detest him. Afterwards, I didn't feel very much at all for a week or two. I suppose I was in shock. But then the fury rose and it hasn't subsided since. Sometimes I find it difficult to control. I think it was around the time th..		love-quotes jilted-bride	John Boyne
13ca7cc	Still, I had resolved to sit and talk with him and that is what I would do. He neither offered permission nor withheld it regarding the curtains, so I stepped over to the window and pulled them apart, glancing down onto the New York streets below. The yellow cabs were driving up and down honking their horns and the view between the skyscrapers held me for a minute. I had never fallen in love with this city--even after almost seven years my ..			John Boyne
5e4f2db	Nao torne as coisas piores, pensando que doi mais do que voce realmente esta sentindo.			John Boyne
3523dbd	Algumas coisas estao la, cuidando da propria vida, esperando para serem descobertas. Como a America. Outras coisas e melhor que deixemos em paz. Como um rato morto no fundo do armario.			John Boyne
69f497d	I'm asking you, if we're not Jews, what are we instead?' 'We're the opposite,			John Boyne
8cac5d7	E entao o comodo ficou escuro e de alguma maneira, apesar do caos que se seguiu, Bruno percebeu que ainda estava segurando a mao de Shmuel entre as suas e nada no mundo o teria convencido a solta-la.			John Boyne
9e0c5b1	The novel was written by Anshel Bronstein, the boy who had lived in the flat below him as a child. Of course, he remembered, he had wanted to be a writer. It seemed that his ambition had come true.			John Boyne
8daad8e	But they'd never once invited any of the striped pajama people to dinner.			John Boyne
ce57b9f	What you know about women," replied Maude, "could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there'd still be room for the Lord's Prayer. For"			John Boyne
7575b1e	Shmuel blinked and shook his head. It was quite extraordinary. If it wasn't for the fact that Bruno was nowhere near as skinny as the boys on his side of the fence, and not quite so pale either, it would have been difficult to tell them apart. It was almost (Shmuel thought) as if they were all exactly the same really.			John Boyne
5f7e78f	The only thing I'd tell Maude, if she was here, is that she runs the risk of sounding a little anti-man at times, don't you agree? All the husbands in her novels are stupid, insensitive, faithless individuals with murky pasts, empty heads, micro-penises and questionable morals. But I suppose she had a good imagination, as all writers must, and she was simply making things up.			John Boyne
4d14857	Those people ... well, they're not people at all,			John Boyne
f686a76	My mother was Evelin's Hartford," said Maude, as if this would mean something to one or the other of us. "So you know, she simply adored chairs."			John Boyne
a2a98ba	Do you watch Neighbors, Cyril?" "Well, I've seen it," I admitted. "Although I wouldn't go so far as to say I watch it."			John Boyne
4fc0c88	Con los arboles pasaba todo lo contrario que con las personas: estas, cuanto mayores eran, mas pequenas parecian volverse. Con los arboles, funcionaba al reves.			John Boyne
ef8d64c	Do you watch Neighbors, Cyril?" "Well, I've seen it," I admitted. "Although I wouldn't go so far as to say I watch it." "You should. It's magnificent. Shakespearean in its characterization."			John Boyne
561b6f4	I've always considered myself to be the sturdy type. You know, the sort who can put up with any unpleasant situation if I have to.			John Boyne
9bb652d	Is it too much to ask for decent transportation during one's lifetime?			John Boyne
5592e83	Bruno thought about this and frowned. He wasn't particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a Hopeless Case and caused nothing but trouble for him. But it seemed a little unfair that they all had to go with her.			John Boyne
1d10733	But what about school?' said Bruno, interrupting her, a thing he knew he was not supposed to do but which he felt he would be forgiven for on this occasion. 'And what about Karl and Daniel and Martin? How will they know where I am when we want to do things together?			John Boyne
1cb103d	The more you read, the more you write, the more the ideas will appear. They'll fall like confetti around your head and your only difficulty will be deciding which ones to catch and which to let fall to the floor.			John Boyne
1ea3edb	There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.			John Boyne
a59443e	My mother was Eveline Hartford," said Maude, as if this would mean something to one or the other of us. "So as you know, she simply adored chairs."			John Boyne
ec532d8	Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.		priests-quotes	John Boyne
cba3919	Bruno: Me parece que no puedo dejarlo. Me parece que no quiero.			John Boyne
95e053f	the usual nonsense that people who know nothing about anything, like me, say when they don't want their own days to be ruined by worrying about others.			John Boyne

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